Being of the old school, I don't like to tread on people's toes, so I'm after some advice...

The background is that I've been in the Land of the Long Corridor for a week and there's a tin of Westler's Sausages in Lard in the fridge in the tea room. It's a week and the tin is still there, unopened.

Is this a kind invite to visitors to help themselves? Or is it a subtle way of indicating that there's a fellow ARRSEr about? (It's an ARRSE secret, right?)

If I do decide to take the can back to my pit, is it customary to leave the middle sausage on a plate so that the owner gets a share?

And should I bring the can (and sausages) back the next morning or should I pass it round the other blokes in the billet?

If I do bring the can back, should I put it back in the fridge? If so, should I replace the sausage?

I've been looking at the can for a few days now, but I've resisted because I'm not sure of the polite thing to do.

The correct etiquette, given that they're Westlers snorkers cooked in lard, is to flush them down the bog and get some proper bangers from a local supplier; pork and apple, extracted from pigs who only eat acorns and who are massaged daily in stout.

Eating a Westlers 'sausage' is like eating a tramp's cock, even if you're completely pissed and starving at the time.

Given the time of day (or should I say night) the correct etiquette should be.

1. Open the tin
2. Extract the middle sausage and insert your own.
3. Move said can back and forth rapidly until you deposit your own lard
4. Wipe sausage (yours) on nearest available quilt / curtain / sprog (delete as neccesary)
5. Get your head down

NB - Watch your cock on the jagged edges of the tin unless you want a diy circumsicion

The drill is simple and unchanging, you eat the sausages cold without remorse, rub the lard into any washing on the line, other peoples towels, or the carpet, take a dump into the empty tin before placing it in the microwave next to the charred hedghog and tuning it all once more for maximum smoke, borrow some money before give everyone in reach a hefty thick ear and going back to the pub!